A one day workshop affiliated with AOSD 2007 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on March 13, 2007.

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Motivation and Objectives

Modularization Mechanisms such as mix-ins, units, open classes, hyper-slices, adaptive methods, roles, composition filters, pointcut-advice, and intertype declarations have shown significant potential. They provide software engineers with new capabilities to modularize concerns that were hard to separate previously. Support for these modularization mechanisms have so far been largely limited to high-level languages and their compilers. Recent research results have shown that deeper support, e.g. in virtual machines and intermediate languages, have far-reaching impacts. In particular, more optimization opportunities open up. Development processes such as incremental compilation, debugging, etc are radically simplified. Moreover, dynamic support becomes possible without compromising on efficiency. To that end, the objective of this workshop, first in the series, is to generate interest in this topic, to frame and refine research problem formulations, and to
identify and encourage the pursuit of promising opportunities and approaches. We invite novel insights from within the programming language, compilers, virtual machine community and elsewhere.